I’d like to use my Backendless App to generate a unique URL for a user (e.g., app-name.backendless.com/uniqueidstring), that they could share with non-users to access a page containing information the user choose to share.
Do you know of any examples I could look at that do something similar? Or if this is easy or hard with Backendless?
Hello @Grace_Young
It is not possible to do it with URL parameters, but it is possible to do it with query string, so your URL should something like the following:
https://<your-generated-domain>.backendless.app/?user-id=00D886EA-E993-43CD-AEF6-104B005929B0
On the logic page you take you query string from Page Data, for example:
Checkout the full codeless logic:
As a result when you goes to the page you will see the following result:
This actually didn’t work for me. I don’t see anything except “Hello world! Empty repository created” with the URL. I’d like to make something similar to the “share by link” feature of Google docs - where a link can take anyone to a page with the user’s data.
Any other ideas? Thanks!
Hello @Grace_Young
what is your application Id, and in which container I should choose to see how you implement the logic?
We also need this functionality (unique url for unique user to publish content that can be seen by the outside world). I understand we could create a query string to attach to an app url… this is quite ugly though and users would not want to share out such (URL+query) links. Might one solution be some sort of link shortener (3rd party) that redirects to (URL+query)?
So the idea is we have a 3rd party link shortener configured somewhere which takes a pretty short link and redirects user to our Backendless app with query string appended. Might this be a good solution?
Do you mean a service that processes links like https://myApp.com/John and redirects you to https://myBackendless.com/?page=landing&userName=John?
Now there is no solution better than this
Regards
Yes exactly, and thanks for the quick answers!
